German Apple Cake-Tart
This is a fairly simple and very elegant apple tart in a deliciously thick crust with spirals of apple wedges graced with a delicious cinnamon-sugar topping. I wanted a safe place to keep it and my mom's paper copy is pretty tattered from so many uses! The cake/crust part is good for a variety of other recipes too (a quick pat-in-the-pan quiche crust, for example).
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DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Cake/Crust: Mix dry ingredients and cut in butter as for a pie crust (mixture should be "sandy" with small pea-sized lumps of butter).
- Add egg and milk and mix well.
- Pat into the bottom and halfway up the sides of a 11 1/2 X 7 1/2 baking dish (I use large ceramic quiche pan).
- Filling: Arrange apple slices in a spiral around pan (I start outside and work in, eventually cutting pieces to fit).
- Topping: Mix topping ingredients and spread over apples. Bake for about 40 minutes or until apples are tender.
- Toward the end of the baking time you can also run it under a broiler to nicely brown the edges of the apples for the extra "wow" factor.
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